Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘ Hedge Fund ’

Gold, Silver Rocket up in After Hours, Surging Equities Help

Nov 14th, 2008 | By Doug Casey | Category: Financial News

It was a schizophrenic day for gold and silver, which could do little right during regular trading but couldn’t be stopped in the after hours action.



Easthampton Burning?

Nov 3rd, 2008 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Financial News

The typhoon of commentary that’s blown around the world a step behind the financial tsunami that’s wrecking everything, two little words have been curiously absent: “fraud” and “swindle.” But aren’t they really at the core of what has happened? Wall Street took the whole world “for a ride” and now a handful of Wall Street’s erstwhile princelings have shifted ceremoniously into U.S. Government service to “fix” the problem with a “toolbox” containing a notional two trillion dollars.



Jim Rogers: China’s Economic Advance is All But Unstoppable

Apr 15th, 2008 | By Keith Fitz-Gerald | Category: International Investing

China’s long-term prospects are so strong that even a civil war, an economic collapse or political assassinations would only temporarily delay its emergence as a worldwide economic powerhouse.



Soros: “We Have Not Yet Seen the Full Effect of Possible Recession”

Apr 14th, 2008 | By Jason Simpkins | Category: Politics & Economics

George Soros first made a name for himself with The Quantum Fund, a hedge fund that’s often described as the first real global investment fund, which he and partner Jim Rogers founded in 1970.



Inflationary Losers in the Great Solvency Slump

Apr 7th, 2008 | By Adrian Ash | Category: Politics & Economics

You don’t have to be a rabid libertarian or Marxist historian with leather patches on his jacket to look at the current world banking crisis and ask “Cui bono…?



Credit Default Swaps: A $50 Trillion Problem

Apr 2nd, 2008 | By Martin Hutchinson | Category: Politics & Economics

Of all the really bad ideas that have infested the finance business in the last 30 years, the most dangerous is probably the credit default swap (CDS).